Hermann Grassmann, German linguist and mathematician (died 1877)

Hermann Grassmann

German polymath, linguist and mathematician (1809–1877)

Hermann Günther Grassmann was a German polymath known in his day as a linguist and now also as a mathematician. He was also a physicist, general scholar, and publisher. His mathematical work was little noted until he was in his sixties. His work preceded and exceeded the concept…